Google’s Sergey Brin Mines Ethereum With His Son

Ethereum, the most popular smart contract-powered cryptocurrency network, has found a new miner—none other than Alphabet Inc.’s Google ( GOOGL) co-founder Sergey Brin. "A year or two ago, my son insisted that we needed to get a gaming PC," said Brin. "I told him, 'OK, if we get a gaming PC, we have to mine cryptocurrency.